Windows Azure Mobile Services with iOS, E-mail, SMS, Facebook Support

Microsoft recently released an update to Windows Azure Mobile Services which enables you to develop applications for iOS, add e-mail capability, integrate SMS and voice services with Twilio including the ability to authenticate users via Windows Live, Facebook, Twitter and Google. Moreover, the new update enables you to deploy Windows Azure applications to the West US region.

The iOS support for Windows Azure enables you to connect iPhone and iPad apps to mobile services. It is still in development phase but the latest libraries are available on GitHub. However, Microsoft has not included a simple push notification service for iOS.

The latest update enables you to make use of Windows Azure Blob, Tables and ServiceBus with your mobile services application using server scripts. These scripts are written in JavaScript and are executed in a secure server side scripting environment built using Node.js from within the Windows Azure portal.

Microsoft has partnered with SendGrid to integrate e-mail solution for your mobile services application. With the help of this feature, you can easily add a welcome e-mail upon successful user registration and also set an alert upon the completion of certain activity, like when a database table is modified.

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